Is Bush's push for Mexicans to do low-paying jobs racist?

[glarius]

Does anyone but me think it is racist to say, as Bush does, that "Mexicans must be allowed to come across the border and do the jobs that Americans won't do?"...Is he saying that these dirty jobs are beneath Americans but not Mexicans?...I have wondered why nobody has mentioned this point when discussing the question.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Isn't that what exactly Vincente Fox was pilloried for saying?

[Warpy]

2. No, it's classist

He wants the lowest socioeconomic class to give his class a free ride on slave wages.

It's about CLASS. It's about JOBS. It's about WAGES. It's about CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATISM as practiced by both parties.

Identify the real enemy and you're on the road to fighting them.

[glarius]

4. You're right.....it's just that

the way Bush says it, somehow it sounds racist.

[fasttense]

3. I've worked in the fields with illegals and I'm

an American. It was hard work but the pay wasn't bad for a college kid. I guess I'm not considered American in brush's opinion.

[Disturbed]

5. Please read the article.

The Biggest Lie.

“Surely, in the history of lies told to the population, this is the biggest lie. In the history of secrets, withheld from the American people, this is the biggest secret: that there are classes with different interests in this country. To ignore that—not to know that the history of our country is a history of slaveowner against slave, landlord against tenant, corporation against worker, rich against poor—is to render us helpless before all the lesser lies told to us by people in power.” Howard Zinn

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0321-20.htm

[gizmo1979]

6. It's elitest and that's

what Bush and the neocons are and forever shall be elitest.They use us to make there lifestyles possible.It doesn't matter what color or race you are if you are not in the top 2% they have only utilitarian use for you until you are no longer useful at which time you are discarded.